Grace lives out the Gospel in the burning love of
God.
When we present the message of the
Crucifixion as a courtroom drama, gospel reality is cold, lifeless and
fear-mongering. A gospel concerning a legal transaction that is validated by
do's and don'ts of the religious legal contract of the Law with its religious
rules and observances does not have the power to move the heart of man to
transform the person.
However when
we present the Gospel in historical setting and context in which the crucifixion
happened, and understand what it truly accomplished, our fears and inhibitions
will dissipate because of God's burning love transforms, something that the
fear-mongering of a burning hell can never do. Presenting the Gospel as a
courtroom drama, where if man does not accept God's offer of salvation results
in a burning hell is not the good news of the gospel. The Gospel was an act of
the burning love of the Godhead.
We must
realize that there is no division between the members of the Godhead. Christ is
not saving us *from* His mean Father, but *with* His loving Father resulting in
an overwhelming sense of gratitude and love overwhelming us! When people see
love in action, instead of a courtroom debate where justice sentences people to
a burning hell, as the motivation behind the the Gospel, their heart cannot
remainhard, cold and disinterested. When people behold the Gospel and see that
flaming demonstration of God’s burning love for them, their heart is
supernaturally charged with a reciprocal love for God and for
people.
Grace is the heart of the Gospel! There is nothing cold, hard or
fear-mongering about it. It’s the declaration that the Godhead is pulsating with
a passionate burning love and desire for the Community of Humanity! Out of this
burning passion of love, Jesus moves towards us and wraps Himself in the sin
that causes our broken life, and puts it to death through His own death! In so
doing, He destroys the power of sin and grinds to powder our sense of
segregation and isolation!
Such is the Gospel of Grace. Love itself came
to rescue us, restore us and remind us of who we were. It was a raging passion
of burning love, that brought Christ to
us, not courtroom justice resulting in a burning hell for
eternity. We must never fear-monger this Gospel, but let it be the burning love
reality that it
is!
Grace alone has
the power to inflame the human heart with love for our loving Father and for
people. This is the Good News Gospel.
- Glenn Regular
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